He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines( he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.